i've seen Doom on tv last night.. holy crap it sucked in the same way of RES, Max Payne etc.
Maybe the only decent one i've seen is Silent Hill....
my question: why movies taken from games sucks so much?
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Movies taken from videogames
i've seen Doom on tv last night.. holy crap it sucked in the same way of RES, Max Payne etc.
Maybe the only decent one i've seen is Silent Hill....
my question: why movies taken from games sucks so much?
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Cuz AI sucks in these games and people must be dumb too, except Heroes, these are human players!
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that's not an answer. For example Max Payne (the game) has a great plot and charisma, all the characters are very well explained in all their feelings. Max Payne the movie is like a bang bang boom boom one.. no story, no drama, no explainations.. anything!
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You think movies based on games are bad? What about games based on movies? They're god-awful. Anybody remember Top Gun?
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Games based on movies are the same crap..Originally Posted by IronBrig4
For example, what if Resident Evil the movie, was directed by George A Romero and Tom Savini? for sure the result was much better than the Anderson's one
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Licensed games are horrible. But, he has a point, movies based on videogames are trash. Mostly.
The only ones I can think of, that are genuinely good, are Silent Hill and the first Resident Evil movie. There are other ones, though, that are So Bad It's Good: the first Mortal Kombat, the '94 Street Fighter, the second Resident Evil movie, and Advent Children.
Most are So Bad It's Horrible, though.
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A lot of movies based on the plot of the game are terrible. Just like games based on the plot of the movie, which lately have come out coinciding the movie(think Ice Age, X-Men Origins, all that jazz). On the other hand, movies which create their own storyline in the same 'universe' can be good. Similarly, games which don't focus on following the course of the film can be good(think Star Wars as the most notable movie-game franchise).
The problem is game design and movie production are two entirely different things, so when either try to mimic the other it results in a whole lot of shite.
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Yes, it was brilliant! Best game ever. Or at least it was for me, when i was 6. Almost every movie has a corresponding game these days. Some are ok, like Bourne.
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Max payne game was just very good.But the guy who played in the movie looked just emotionless.
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That's what Mark Wahlberg calls acting.
People, just accept the fact that movies made from video games are at best mediocre but usually crap. There's probably several reasons for that. For one, producers wanting to cash in using a popular and established brand, which usually means making the least effort and the slapping a popular name on it.
Then the misconception that something that worked well as a game will automatically make a good movie.
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Says the guy praising the game where the model had the same look on his face no matter what.
Max Payne, as a general rule, isn't a very emotional character. There are scenes that are an exception to this, but by and large, Max is just a Man on a Mission(TM), and to hell with emotion, life, and everything but the end goal. Ironically, this makes Wahlberg a very appropriate casting choice for the role.
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Because incompetent people makes them.
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Poppycock! Hollywood makes the games better by the movies. All Star Wars games suck compared to my original genius in the films, but I still let them get made, they make me money!
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The answer is simple: b/c transferring the plot/characters/etc from one medium to another almost never works. Something gets lost in translation and it really is unavoidable. Also, movie makers are limited...let's use your example here of Max Payne...that game from start to finish took what? 5? 6? hours to complete yeah? Well, the movie can only really last about an hour...thus ALOT needs to be condensed, changed, added, or even totally thrown out...taking a lot of the experience players got from the game and totally changing it.
Plus, if you were to totally adapt a game for film it would probably be the most boring experience of your life - same going for movies to games. Games are all about interaction...movies are not.
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I don't get it, is it the same person impersonating all these people on TWC? Is it funny, satirical or something else that I obviously don't see. I don't see it as being particularly clever, I guess some would, some will find anything funny.
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I think so. You'll note that as soon as one disappears, another one pops up.
He's trying (and failing) at it.Is it funny
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He used to be hilarious.. but that was before the dark times..
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You know I was hoping maybe I just wasn't seeing it, maybe I'm to old now or something.
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Games based on movies is usually rushed in order to get sold when the hype of the movie is at it's maximum. It usually takes years for developers to create a good game, but movie licensed games is created in a matter of months --> 1 year. And they are usually sold before the movie even comes out. X-Men: Origins Wolverine is an exception, as it strayed from the movie plot and took it's own course + lots of blood + a REAL healing factor. Even IGN gave it a 7.9/10.
Why movies that are based on games suck is because Uwe Boll directed 90% of them.
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